Which is BETTER?!?!?!
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The longer wheel base will help. My 1969 Ford Cobra (the Fairlane body) with a 428CJ would out run the stock 428CJ Mustangs.
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Ok so heres the plan for my Ranchero....
Going to bore it out 30 over....
That will bring me up to a 427 (drool)
Put bigger pistons but keep the ratio at 9.5 so i get decent gas milage.
OK...
Keep the connecting rods and crank... ( connecting rods are the longer ones so more torque)
Then get a comp cam.... Edelbrock heads and intake mani.... Holley carb....
If it doesnt preform good it will sound amazing!!
(and do good burnouts 
)
Going to bore it out 30 over....
That will bring me up to a 427 (drool)
Put bigger pistons but keep the ratio at 9.5 so i get decent gas milage.
OK...
Keep the connecting rods and crank... ( connecting rods are the longer ones so more torque)
Then get a comp cam.... Edelbrock heads and intake mani.... Holley carb....
If it doesnt preform good it will sound amazing!!
(and do good burnouts )
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Post Fiend
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Same block, well no actually. A 390 has a 4.05" bore and a 427 has a 4.23" bore. Do the math......that's a .180" over bore and there are maybe 1000 390 blocks in the whole world that can be bored that far. So the answer is.......NOT GONNA HAPPEN! I had a 390 HP block (that's a 375 horse High Performance block) from 1962 that I was able to bore to 4.13", thats only .080" to make a 406. But any newer 390 than about 1969 just isn't gonna work and very few earlier ones either for that matter.
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Is this Post/thread a Joke? Or what ? the one kid talking smack and doesnt even have a clue!! and the other one doesnt say squat about his 460 ? I think they would be better off useing email to one another..
RJ
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